Humayun Akhtar Khan (

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, and actuary. He has been elected as a member of the

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four consecutive times between 1990–2007, having served as Federal Minister for Trade and Commerce from 2002–2007 and as Chairman Board of Investment from 1997–1999. Khan is the Chairman of Akhtar Fuiou Technologies and Institute for Policy Reform, and owns one of the largest conglomerates in Pakistan, comprising Tandlianwala Sugar Mills Group, Zamand Steel, Superior Textile Mill, and Lotte Akhtar Beverages ( PepsiCo

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Early life and education

Khan received his early education from

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and Saint Mary's Academy, Rawalpindi. He then received a bachelors degree from Government College University, Lahore, and a masters degree in actuarial science and business administration from

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. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, USA since 1980, and the

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since 1981.

Business

Lotte Akhtar Beverages

Khan, along with his brothers, decided to move back to

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in 1988 after the death of their father, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, in a plane crash which also killed President Zia-ul-Haq. The Akhtar brothers, along with their cousin

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and his brother-in-law

Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood () is a Pakistani businessman and politician who is the chairman of JDW Group. Belonging from Jamal Din Wali Tehsil Sadiqabad of District Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab. He was elected to the National Assemblies on IJI ticket ...

, together bought Riaz Bottlers (

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and distribution

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for PepsiCo beverages in Pakistan) from former Chief Minister of Punjab

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. The consortium managed to turn around the fortunes of Riaz Bottlers from bankruptcy to being the standout company in the beverage industry with key sponsorship deals such as that with the

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and a vast portfolio of beverages including

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, Mountain Dew,

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, Slice, Sting. In 2018, South Korean chaebol

Lotte Chilsung Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., Ltd. is one of the largest drink manufacturers in South Korea and is part of the Lotte Corporation. The name ''Chilsung'' (''chilseong'', , ) means "Big Dipper" (literally seven stars), and the company's logo is an ...

acquired a controlling stake in Riaz Bottlers (now known as Lotte Akhtar Beverages) although the Akhtar brothers maintain a significant minority share and are Lotte's strategic partners in Pakistan.

Tandlianwala Sugar Mills

After success in the beverage industry, the Akhtar brothers entered the Pakistan's sugar industry. They later expanded into production of downstream products such as

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and

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. Tandlianwala Sugar Mills is the second-largest publicly listed producer of sugar and its allied products on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in terms of

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, market capitalization,

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, and capacity, while it is also the largest

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of ethanol in the country, comprising 17% of Pakistan's total ethanol exports. As of February 2022, it has a market capitalization of

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15.7 billion. The group includes three sugar mills in

Tandlianwala Tandlianwala ( ur, ) is a town in Punjab, Pakistan and the headquarters of Tandlianwala Tehsil. It is located 40 km from the city of Faisalabad and 45 km from Okara. It is a sub-division of Faisalabad District and has a Tehsil muni ...

Muzaffargarh Muzaffargarh (Urdu and pa, , , Fort of Muzaffar) is a city in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the bank of the Chenab River, it is the capital of the district with the same name. It is the 39th largest city of Pakistan by populatio ...

, and

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with a combined sugarcane crushing capacity of 48,000 tons of cane per day (480,000

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of sugar per year); three ENA ethanol

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in Tandlianwala and Muzaffargarh with a production capacity of 380,000 liters of ethanol per day (100,000 metric tonnes of ethanol per year), and a

recovery plant with a capacity of 48 tons per day (annual production of 16,000 tonnes).

Akhtar Fuiou Technologies

Akhtar Fuiou Technologies is a

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platform that has attained in-principal approval from the

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for an electronic money institution license. It is a joint venture between Akhtar Group, one of the largest industrial groups in Pakistan, and Shanghai Fuiou Payment Service Corporation, one of the leading players in the payments space in China. AFT offers cloud based payroll solutions to unbanked rural employees of the sugar, textile, beverage, and construction industries, enabling it to secure a large number of mobile wallets which can be used to make payments and receive foreign remittances. AFT eventually aims to digitize payments across the entire supply chain in these sectors. In addition, AFT also facilitates cross border payments for

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platforms, merchants and freelancers and distributes point of sale terminals manufactured by Chinese brands to acquiring institutions in Pakistan in order to create an enabling ecosystem for digital payments in the country.

Nonprofit Organizations

Institute for Policy Reforms

In March 2014, the Akhtar Brothers founded Institute for Policy Reforms, a nonprofit, nonpartisan

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. It regularly publishes research reports,

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, and

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on key

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issues concerning Pakistan with a particular focus on economic policy, national security, and

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. IPR's Board of Advisors includes prominent personalities from various fields of Pakistani society including

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, academic scholars,

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, and

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Political career

Joining IJI and PML-N (1990–1999)

Humayun Akhtar Khan started his political journey in 1990 when he contested the

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representing

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from NA-92 Lahore constituency (now NA-123 and NA-127), which was then considered a Pakistan Peoples Party stronghold. Khan won the election, beating PPP's Rafiq Ahmed Sheikh. He became a member of Pakistan Muslim League (N) after it broke from the IJI. In the 1993 general election, he contested for the

seat from the NA-93 Lahore constituency (now NA-129 and NA-131), which was then known as the 'Larkana of Lahore' as it was another PPP stronghold. He beat PPP's

Aitzaz Ahsan Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan ( ur, ; born 27 September 1945) is a Pakistani politician and lawyer. He served two times as the Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2012 to 2015. He also served as the Leader o ...

, and was thus elected as a Member of the National Assembly for a second time.

Formation of PML-Q (1999–2002)

After the military coup in 1999 in which

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was overthrown by

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, Humayun Akhtar. along with many of

s close aides. were under house arrest for months. For two years, the

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launched thorough investigations against Humayun's family and placed him on the

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. After being cleared of all allegations leveled against him, Humayun resumed his political career in 2001. In 2002,

, who by then had also become the President of Pakistan, promised that there would be

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in October. Because

had been exiled to

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and the military establishment gave the impression that he was gone for good, many of his most prominent party leaders including

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ( pa, ; ur, ; (born 27 January 1940) is a senior Pakistani politician from a Punjabi Jat family of Gujrat who previously served as 16th prime minister of Pakistan. Hussain is the party president of the Pakistan ...

Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi (Urdu, pa, ; born 1 November 1945) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Punjab and the President of Pakistan Muslim League (Q), a conservative centrist to centre-right-nationalis ...

Ijaz-ul-Haq Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq ( ur, ; born 20 February 1952) is a Pakistani politician who is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Z). He served as Minister for Religious Affairs and Minorities in the government of General Pervez Musharraf from ...

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (Urdu: خورشيد محمود قصورى; born 18 June 1941), is a Pakistani politician and writer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan between November 2002 until November 2007. He is the Senior Ad ...

Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad ( ur, ; born 6 November 1950) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 38th Interior Minister of Pakistan from 2020 to 2022. He is famous because of his smoking cigars and Laal Haveli. He is the founder and leader of A ...

, Mian Azhar and Humayun Akhtar Khan formed a new party called Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid-e-Azam. Humayun contested from constituency NA-125 which was in fact part of what was once called NA-93, the constituency he won from in

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. This time, his main opponents were Akram Zaki of PML-N and Naveed Chaudhry of PPP.

Prime Ministerial candidacy (2002–2004)

When

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was forming its government in 2002, Humayun Akhtar was one of the candidates considered for the post of

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. However,

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and the PML-Q eventually decided to choose the

from one of the smaller provinces and hence gave the honor to

Zafarullah Khan Jamali Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (; 1 January 1940 – 2 December 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 2002 until his resignation in 2004. He was the first and only elected prime minister from Balochi ...

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. By early 2004, it was clear that Jamali had fallen out of favor with President Musharraf and his own party members. Jamali did not support Musharraf's decision to keep on his

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amongst other things while

was fed up of Jamali's incompetence and poor governance. By May 2004, the party decided to sack Jamali, and in his place, a number of potential candidates were listed. After many high level consultations between the

and his close political and military aides, it was decided that Humayun was the best choice to lead the nation. Although Humayun had a strong backing of the Pakistan Army and the ISI as many of the top generals had served under his father who led these institutions in the 1980s, his own party leaders the Chaudhrys of Gujrat proved to be the last hurdle in his nomination as they fought tooth and nail to ensure that he did not become the next

. Party President

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went to the extent of asking Musharraf to delay the announcement of the new

by three weeks till the budget session concluded. Many political analysts believe that the main reason behind the delay was to postpone Humayun's candidacy as the Chaudhry's felt that he had intentions of hijacking the party from them and as a result threatening Pervaiz Elahi's own political ambitions of eventually becoming Prime Minister after the next election. Eventually,

adhered to the pressure and the only other viable option for

was

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Shaukat Aziz who was a Senator, not a

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. Eventually,

was made interim

for two months and it was decided that Shaukat Aziz would contest an election for the

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via by-election. Shortly after contesting and winning the by-election, Shaukat Aziz replaced

Alliance with PML-N (2012–2013)

In May 2012, the Pakistan Muslim League (Like-minded Group) formed an alliance with the

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in a bid to unite all

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factions under the leadership of

, with the aim of defeating the PTI and the ruling coalition of PPP and

in the upcoming

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. According to the seat adjustment formula that would accommodate several leaders of the Likeminded Group, Humayun was to be awarded a

ticket from NA-124

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instead of NA-125 while his brother Haroon Akhtar was to be awarded a

senate seat in the 2015 senate elections. However, days before the election tickets were finalized, PML-N violated the agreement it signed in 2012 as Humayun did not receive a

ticket from either of the two constituencies, although his brother Haroon was accommodated in June 2015 as a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue and was elected as a Senator on a PML-N ticket in the 2018 Senate Election. While Humayun stayed out out of the public eye for the next five years, he spearheaded new

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for his family businesses.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2018–Present)

In July 2018, Humayun Akhtar joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Having served as a Member of the

several times from all of the areas comprising NA-131, he led PTI Chairman Imran Khan's campaign in the constituency and played an integral role in helping him defeat

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by a narrow margin of 680 votes. After Imran Khan decided to keep his MNA seat from

Mianwali Mianwali (Punjabi/ ur, ) is the capital city of Mianwali District in Punjab, Pakistan. The 81st largest city of Pakistan, it is known for its diverse population of, Punjabi and Pashtun ethnicities. History Mianwali District was an agricult ...

, Humayun Akhtar was declared PTI's candidate for the

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from NA-131. In the by-election, he was defeated by Khawaja Saad Rafique, who received 60,476 votes compared to Akhtar's 51,329.

Personal life

His father,

Akhtar Abdur Rahman, headed the ISI from 1979–1987, eventually going on to become

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of the

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, while his brother Senator

Haroon Akhtar Khan Haroon Akhtar Khan is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Senate of Pakistan, from March to October 2018. Political career In January 2018, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi appointed Khan as his special assistant on revenue and g ...

served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue from 2015 to 2018.

References

External links

Official website

Tandlianwala Sugar Mills Ltd.

Institute for Policy Reforms
{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Humayun Akhtar 1964 births Living people Pakistan Peoples Muslim League politicians Government College University, Lahore alumni University of Manitoba alumni Pakistani actuaries Commerce Ministers of Pakistan Pakistani industrialists

Early life and education

Business

Lotte Akhtar Beverages

Tandlianwala Sugar Mills

Akhtar Fuiou Technologies

Nonprofit Organizations

Institute for Policy Reforms

Political career

Joining IJI and PML-N (1990–1999)

Formation of PML-Q (1999–2002)

Prime Ministerial candidacy (2002–2004)

Alliance with PML-N (2012–2013)

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2018–Present)

Personal life

See also

References

External links